Today, in the Great Hall of the People, 91-year-old Lu Qiming received the "July 1st Medal" awarded by the state, and he has always practiced his oath of joining the party throughout his life.
In August 1945, at the age of 15, Lu Qiming gloriously joined the Communist Party of China. Inheriting his father's legacy and dedicating everything to the people and the motherland is not a slogan for the old Communist Party member Lu Qiming, but a lofty duty and a sacred mission.
Father is the light that illuminates me
He joined the army at the age of 10, joined the Party at the age of 15, wrote "Ode to the Red Flag" at the age of 35, "Bethune in Jinchaji" at the age of 90, and "Sacrifice" at the age of 91... As a martyr's child, Lü Qiming said that his father, Lü Huisheng, was a mirror for him and an immortal lamp.
Lü Huisheng was a very prestigious educator in Anhui Wuwei, who actively participated in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and served as the director of the Administrative Office of the Anhui River Anti-Japanese Base Area of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army. At the age of 10, Lu Qiming joined the army with his father and became a small actor in the anti-enemy theater troupe, following the troupe to the countryside to tour, singing, acting, teaching songs, propaganda and agitation. At the turn of the spring and summer of 1942, a medium-sized, thin, blue-clothed gentleman came to the regiment, who led a jujube red horse and immediately hung a violin box, and he was the musician and educator He Luting. In the war-torn era, the fire of music was sown, one old and one young. Those years were a rare warm memory of Lu Qiming's childhood, looking forward to the early end of the war, looking forward to having a violin of his own... But the harsh reality is that in 1945, when he was going north with the Seventh Division, his father, Lü Huisheng, was seriously ill and had to retreat secretly from the Yangtze River, and was arrested by traitors.
Lü Qiming's father, Lü Huisheng
Lu Huisheng was loyal and unyielding under torture, and at the age of 43, he wrote "Desperate Poem": Bear with watching mountains and rivers shatter? May the red blood flow. Smoke and dust opened up behind the enemy and disturbed the people. Eight years of perseverance, loyalty for the national reward. And rejoice in the breaking of dawn, and even die what I want! His father's generosity and righteousness had an indelible impact on Lu Qiming throughout his life. In August of that year, Lü Qiming of the Xiaoxin Fourth Army gloriously joined the Communist Party of China. At home, the 15-year-old swore an oath to the party that he would fight for communism all his life and even give his life. Inheriting his father's legacy, always with a pure heart, he dedicated everything to the motherland, and since then, Lu Qiming has established a firm belief in life in his heart.
In the army, Lu Qiming insisted on the pursuit of music
In May 1949, Shanghai was liberated, and as a literary and artistic soldier, Lu Qiming followed the Cultural and Labor Corps of the East China Military Region into Shanghai. The troops marched neatly on the roads of Shanghai, also in yellow cloth uniforms, coarse white cloth socks, and thousand-layered bottom cloth shoes, and the soldiers carried guns and Lu Qiming carried violins. New China has achieved the dreams of countless people, and Lu Qiming is one of them, and he has become the first generation of symphony composers cultivated by New China.
In 1997, after retiring, Lu Qiming was invited to compose background music for the Nanjing Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall. Without being paid for anything, Lu Qiming poured all his thoughts about his father into this work. After returning to Shanghai after fieldwork, he spent more than ten hours a day, which lasted for half a year, and wrote down an orchestral suite of 60 minutes and divided into 15 movements, "Rain flower festival". What is the original intention, Lu Qiming answered.
Music is the voice of the heart, and it is willing to merge with the melody written down
From June 29 to 30 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra will perform two "Red Feelings" concerts, as the veteran director, Lu Qiming's classic "Ode to the Red Flag", as well as two original innovations , "Bethune in Jinchaji" and the string ensemble "Sacrifice", are among the performances. Like a clock with precise travel time, Lu Qiming has operated efficiently all his life, "I am a blank piece of paper, and all beautiful pictures are drawn by the party and the people." ”
An interview with Lu Qiming published by Xinmin Evening News
In 1956, the 26-year-old Lü Qiming was invited by director Zhao Mingzhi to compose music for the movie "Railway Guerrilla", and the memories of his youth seemed to be transformed into pictures in front of Lu Qiming's eyes. In 1943, on a march, the anti-war troupe encountered the Japanese enemy army and its life was hanging in the balance. Under the cover of the common people, Lu Qiming and several comrades-in-arms lived in the cave and used tea pots to receive rainwater to drink. The enemy pressed the laoxiang mountain to ask whether there was a new Fourth Army, and the compatriots insisted that there was none. After seven days and seven nights of hardship, Lu Qiming they were rescued, what is the "military and civilian fish water situation", he has no teeth to forget. "The sun in the west is about to set, the Weishan Lake is quiet, playing my beloved earthen pipa, singing that moving song..." Using the folk music materials of the southern part of Shandong, in just one day, Lu Qiming wrote this song that later spread throughout the north and south of the river, without any skill, relying on the composer's heart.
In addition to large-scale symphonies, in the decades of film, television music, instrumental works and vocal works, he has successively composed music for more than 200 (episodes) of film and television dramas such as "Railway Guerrilla", "Doctor Bethune", "Lushan Love", "Old Things in Seongnam", "Thunderstorm", "Jiao Yulu", etc., which, such as soaring eagles, have flown to every corner of the motherland. Lu Qiming said that he wrote his life together with the seventy years of the republic, "It is my highest pursuit of music to understand, spread and stay." ”
Proud of the country, I am a happy contemporary old man
Last year, just a few days before Lu Qiming's 90th birthday, he received the final version of the newly published "Ode to the Red Flag", and the old man was extremely happy. Sibelius wrote "Ode to Finland", Smetana praised the Czech Republic with "My Motherland", and every country needs artists with broad patriotic feelings and humanistic feelings for their motherland and nation to record the times and praise heroes. Lu Qiming is particularly proud to be able to write a hymn in his heart for the motherland.
What does a 90-year-old Communist Party member look like? Lu Qiming once again practiced the vow of "always following the party" with actions. The new caprice "Bethune in Jinchaji" was composed in 2020 when the new crown epidemic was at its worst. Lu Qiming, who admires the spirit of the white-clad angels in the TV news every day, who is not afraid of hardships and saves lives and helps the injured, uses the music of the movie "Doctor Bethune" as the material, and spends half a year polishing and improving, creating a 17-minute single-movement capriccio.
In the Spring Festival of 2021, when seeing the report of China's victory over the epidemic and poverty alleviation, the old man's heart was excited. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, fathers were sacrificed, how many people fell, and without millions of revolutionary martyrs, there would be no birth of a new China. Today, as they wish, "when everyone celebrates victory, we must not forget the revolutionary martyrs who heroically sacrificed", the old man wrote the string ensemble "Sacrifice".
He is a red musician in the true sense of the word, and he must have a deep affection for one thing in his life, and he has spent his life fulfilling his original oath: "I am a member of the Communist Party of China, and I am willing to dedicate my life to the motherland and the people." (Wu Nanyao)